Re: [gentoo-user] requirement: ssh v1

2019-05-16 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 5/16/19 6:44 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > Will I be able to install such a "kept old" gentoo machine from scratch > or does some have a better idea? > Does it *need* SSHv1, or does the default sshd *run* SSHv1? If it's the latter, you might be able to compile a newer OpenSSH from sour

Re: [gentoo-user] fdm fails during ./configure: libssl not found

2019-06-25 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 6/24/19 6:53 PM, Bryant Morrow wrote: > --- > > fdm-1.9 consistently fails to build, I just drive-by committed v2.0, give that a try.

Re: [gentoo-user] Correct way to fight malicious .doc/.docx/.xls/xlsx/.ppt/.pptx email attachments

2019-07-05 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 7/5/19 11:59 AM, Hasan Ç. wrote: > > Rejecting all of them with postfix is not a option for me. > > I tried some spamassasian rules to give them high score but not worked > as expected. > > I would appreciate it if you share your experiences. > The next version of SpamAssassin will have a p

Re: [gentoo-user] Correct way to fight malicious .doc/.docx/.xls/xlsx/.ppt/.pptx email attachments

2019-07-05 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 7/5/19 2:18 PM, Hasan Ç. wrote: > Hi Michael, > > I quickly tested clamav with option "AlertOLE2Macros" enabled but not > worked as expected. ClamAV still marks malicious office attachments like > VBA macros as CLEAN. Would you mind sending the malicious attachment to my other address, mich...

Re: [gentoo-user] search patterns in less(1)

2019-07-18 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 7/18/19 6:40 PM, n952162 wrote: > in less(1), how do you search for a pattern at the beginning (or ending) > of a word. > Hit front slash "/" in less, and then type a perl-compatible regular expression. Specifically, try https://www.pcre.org/original/doc/html/pcrepattern.html#smallassertions

Re: [gentoo-user] search patterns in less(1)

2019-07-19 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 7/19/19 2:40 AM, n952162 wrote: > The man page says: > >   The pattern is a regular expression, as recognized by >   the regular expression library supplied by  your system > > There are many regular expression libraries on my system. > You caught me, I did $ ldd /usr/bin/le

Re: [gentoo-user] search patterns in less(1)

2019-07-19 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 7/19/19 11:28 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 7/19/19 2:40 AM, n952162 wrote: >> The man page says: >> >>   The pattern is a regular expression, as recognized by >>   the regular expression library supplied by  your system >> >> There are

Re: [gentoo-user] app-text/c2ps buffer overflow

2019-07-26 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 7/26/19 6:26 AM, k...@aspodata.se wrote: > > Downloading source from > http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/users/c2ps/c2ps-4.0.tar.gz > and compiling gives the same result: > > $ /Net/http/www.cs.technion.ac.il/users/c2ps/c2ps-4.0/c2ps -2 tap.c > zz.ps > *** buffer overflow detected ***: > /Net

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: acct-group packages ??

2019-08-05 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 8/5/19 3:21 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 4 Aug 2019 09:59:06 -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > >> I see, I got caught (again) by the favorite gentoo sleight of hand of >> updating a package and not bumping its version. In my case, eudev. > > I've not checked lately, but policy was that if a

Re: [gentoo-user] How to solve file collision as a package maintainer

2019-08-09 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 8/8/19 11:05 PM, YUE Daian wrote: > > It seems that some files (e.g. /usr/bin/ros) are installed by both > dev-lisp/roswell and net-libs/librouteros. > > ... > > Could anyone please give me any clues about how to solve this kind of > problem? The best solution is if you can convince one of t

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-lang/vala-0.44.7 is being emerged/unmerged at random

2019-09-07 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 9/7/19 12:57 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Every time I do a world update, dev-lang/vala-0.44.7 is being emerged > (parallel to 0.42.7 which is already emerged as a dep of something.) > When I then do an 'emerge --depclean', portage wants to unmerge it > again. On the next world update, it c

Re: [gentoo-user] Provide a package for a special PHP version / slot / USE flag?

2019-10-26 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 10/26/19 4:56 AM, Matthias Hanft wrote: > > Is there a way to prevent portage warnings and errors in this > case? > Probably not what you want to hear, but: harass upstream until they release a version that isn't six years old, then open a bug and ask us to add it to the tree.

Re: [gentoo-user] Bounced messages

2019-10-31 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 10/31/19 12:01 PM, Mick wrote: I'm getting the same. On the same message(s). On user@ only. Since you're both on gmail, those messages were probably rejected as spam. It just happens sometimes.

Re: [gentoo-user] g-cpan equivalent for python

2019-11-22 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 11/22/19 4:10 PM, Dan Johansson wrote: > > The recommended way to install it is using pip which will then install > everything including dependencies (which could lead to conflicts with > software installed using emerge (I guess)). > I would rather use some "mechanism" to avoid this and use p

Re: [gentoo-user] g-cpan equivalent for python

2019-11-22 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 11/22/19 9:06 PM, Ralph Seichter wrote: > * Michael Orlitzky: > >> You'll have to write the ebuild yourself, there is no g-cpan >> equivalent for python packages. > > Dan wrote "I have a piece of python software [...] that I would like to > install/try

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage: how can I retain build directories?

2020-02-16 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 2/16/20 10:19 AM, n952162 wrote: > Is there an option to inhibit that the build directories (presumably, > those in /var/tmp) be retained instead of being cleaned up? FEATURES=noclean says it will do that

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about >=net-misc/openssh-8.2_p1

2020-02-21 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 2/21/20 3:15 AM, Alarig Le Lay wrote: > > Will this restart be still required when 8.2 will be stabilised or is it > specific to the ~arch version? It's not specific to the ~arch version. Some interface got broken upstream, and you'll have trouble whenever you upgrade.

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about >=net-misc/openssh-8.2_p1

2020-02-21 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 2/21/20 12:03 PM, Alarig Le Lay wrote: > On ven. 21 févr. 11:00:37 2020, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> On 2/21/20 3:15 AM, Alarig Le Lay wrote: >>> >>> Will this restart be still required when 8.2 will be stabilised or is it >>> specific to the ~arch version?

Re: [gentoo-user] Unstable packages on stable Gentoo

2020-03-08 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 3/8/20 4:22 PM, Consus wrote: > Hi, > > Is it somehow possible to install unstable packages on stable Gentoo > without manual unmasking? Say, package dev-util/perf does not have _any_ > stable ebuild, so IMO there is actually no point in manual unmasking, > because user does not have any choice

Re: [gentoo-user] Unstable packages on stable Gentoo

2020-03-09 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 3/9/20 11:35 AM, Consus wrote: > > But maybe the person who maintains ebuild does not have enough time to > ensure that all QA requirements are met. E.g. installing (willingly) an > unstable package is not the same as installing a "stable" package that > in fact is not. > No one even agrees o

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternate Incoming Mail Server

2020-04-06 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 4/6/20 8:35 AM, Ashley Dixon wrote: > > What do you think; is this at all possible ? Has anyone here done anything > like > this before ? > There's no need, the SMTP specification says that senders must retry every message, and should continue retrying for at least 4 or 5 days: https://to

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternate Incoming Mail Server

2020-04-06 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 4/6/20 9:08 AM, Ashley Dixon wrote: > On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 08:41:20AM -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> There's no need, the SMTP specification says that senders must retry >> every message, and should continue retrying for at least 4 or 5 days: >> >> htt

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternate Incoming Mail Server

2020-04-06 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 4/6/20 11:51 AM, Robert Bridge wrote: > > It is still commonly considered good practice to have a secondary MX server. [citation needed] > Why trust another party to correctly handle your email when your main system > is offline? You're still trusting the sender to do the right thing with

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternate Incoming Mail Server

2020-04-06 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 4/6/20 12:19 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > I find that, with a backup MX, I don't seem to loose emails. > I have, however, found evidence of mailservers belonging to big ISPs not > retrying emails if there is no response from the singular MX. > Well, I can't refute an anecdote without more inf

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternate Incoming Mail Server

2020-04-06 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 4/6/20 1:02 PM, Grant Taylor wrote: > On 4/6/20 10:43 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> Well, I can't refute an anecdote without more information, but if >> you're worried about this you can create the same MX record twice so >> that the "backup" is the

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternate Incoming Mail Server

2020-04-06 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 4/6/20 1:19 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > I have missed emails coming from mailing lists, this one for example, due to > no retries. > The proof for that is that I got replies to emails I never received. > That doesn't prove that the server never retried, it proves that you didn't receive one

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternate Incoming Mail Server

2020-04-06 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 4/6/20 1:24 PM, Robert Bridge wrote: > > But that is just an anecdote. > It's very easy to collect evidence of this from the mail logs if you are correct.

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternate Incoming Mail Server

2020-04-06 Thread Michael Orlitzky
identity=mailfrom; client-ip=208.92.234.80; helo=lists.gentoo.org; envelope-from =gentoo-announce+bounces-2524-michael=orlitzky@lists.gentoo.org; receiver= I'm not saying you're lying about what happened, but that the conclusion you're drawing from it is premature. The Gentoo list

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternate Incoming Mail Server

2020-04-06 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 4/6/20 1:44 PM, Grant Taylor wrote: > On 4/6/20 11:14 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> Why don't you say which MTA it is that both (a) combines MX records with >> different priorities, and (b) doesn't retry messages to the primary MX? > > You seem to have conf

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Alternate Incoming Mail Server

2020-04-06 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 4/6/20 3:03 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > > More often than not, yes. The main exception I've seen are sites that > email you verification codes, such as some sorts of "two-factor" > implementations (whether these are really two-factor I'll set aside > for now). Many of these services will retry,

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternate Incoming Mail Server

2020-04-06 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 4/6/20 3:59 PM, Grant Taylor wrote: >· It's not five seconds a year. > · It's more likely an hour or two a year, possibly aggregated. >· You can't control the retry time frame on the sending side. >· You can control the retry / forward time on secondary MX(s). >· Messages c

Re: [gentoo-user] Per package /bin/sh selection

2020-04-07 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 4/7/20 11:13 AM, Alessandro Barbieri wrote: > How can I change /bin/sh in a per package way using /etc/portage/env? > I need to set bash some packages while I run dash for the system. If it's the ./configure script failing, you can set CONFIG_SHELL="/bin/bash" to override it only in that co

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternate Incoming Mail Server

2020-04-07 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 4/7/20 1:10 PM, Michael wrote: > > Perhaps the order in which recipients servers parse the headers cause the > DKIM > check to fail? > DKIM fails on many mailing lists. This list, for example, modifies your subject to add "[gentoo user]" but leaves the DKIM signature intact. If the sender h

Re: [gentoo-user] Per package /bin/sh selection

2020-04-07 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 4/7/20 2:48 PM, Alessandro Barbieri wrote: > I already filed bugs here: > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/716504 > https://bugs.gentoo.org/716496 > > I need the workaround for the two above plus > this https://bugs.gentoo.org/714094 > Thanks, this will be a PITA for a while (again). Another develo

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternate Incoming Mail Server

2020-04-07 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 4/7/20 2:54 PM, Stefan Schmiedl wrote: > >> DKIM fails on many mailing lists. This list, for example, modifies your >> subject to add "[gentoo user]" but leaves the DKIM signature intact. If >> the sender has a p=reject DMARC policy, that can make his messages >> "disappear" for recipients who

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sci-libs/spqr-1.2.3-r1 failed to emerge

2020-04-08 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 4/8/20 11:01 AM, gevisz wrote: > > Unfortunately, it did not helped. > Before you do anything else, keyword all of the latest suitesparse components: ~sci-libs/suitesparseconfig-5.4.0 ~sci-libs/amd-2.4.6 ~sci-libs/btf-1.2.6 ~sci-libs/camd-2.4.6 ~sci-libs/ccolamd-2.9.6 ~sci-libs/c

Re: [gentoo-user] How to replace vala:0.46 by vala:0.48

2020-04-08 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 4/8/20 2:26 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > Having installed vala:0.48 I still cannot un-emerge vala:0.46 > because gnome-extra/evolution-data-server depends on it. > But I cannot see that dependency in the ebuild. > > What am I missing? > When these changes (affecting RDEPEND) are made wi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Alternate Incoming Mail Server

2020-04-08 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 4/8/20 5:49 PM, Grant Taylor wrote: > > tnetconsulting.net. 604800 IN MX 99 tarbaby.junkemailfilter.com. > The driving force behind junkemailfilter.com passed away almost two years ago: http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2018/08/27/remembering-marc-perkel/ Maybe prematurely (?), I re

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Alternate Incoming Mail Server

2020-04-08 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 4/8/20 6:13 PM, Ashley Dixon wrote: > > It seems like the database is still active, along with the web-site. > For example, > > `nslookup wellsfargo.com.hostkarma.junkemailfilter.com` returns 127.0.0.5, > as > would be expected. > The domain was renewed in 2016 (until 2025), so that's mo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Per package /bin/sh selection

2020-04-08 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 4/8/20 6:44 PM, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2020-04-08 12:14, Mike Gilbert wrote: > >> We use bash as the default /bin/sh, but users are free to replace it >> with whatever shell they like, so long as it is reasonably >> POSIX-compliant. Other shells are obviously less tested in Gentoo. > > Are

Re: [gentoo-user] Install software using ebuilds on other systems

2013-12-08 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 12/08/2013 04:11 PM, Jauhien Piatlicki wrote: > Hi all, > > I have one question. > > There is a nice project called gentoo-prefix that allows to install > Gentoo in other systems locally. It is really greate, but if one needs > to easily install only a little number of packages it can be quite

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Routine update wants to install 3 version of Ruby + 50 others

2013-12-10 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 12/10/2013 10:19 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > > I understand that portage defaults to installing multiple versions (of > Ruby, Python, and probably other stuff). What I don't understand it > _why_. If none of the ebuilds specify q version, then they > presumably will work with any availble vers

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Routine update wants to install 3 version of Ruby + 50 others

2013-12-14 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 12/11/2013 02:47 AM, Hans de Graaff wrote: > >> During a transition period like this, various upstreams release a bunch >> of crap with circular or conflicting dependencies that happen to work on >> their machines because nobody is using a real package manager. The fact >> that it works as well

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng configs for separating warnings/errors and different types of traffic

2013-12-22 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 12/22/2013 03:17 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: > > I'd still like everything to go to /var/log/messages, but I'd like to > also send certain types of messages to different logs to simplify > troubleshooting, etc - ie, I often peruse the logs with: > > egrep '(reject|warning|error|fatal|panic):' /var/

Re: [gentoo-user] VPN question

2013-12-23 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 12/23/2013 07:47 AM, Timur Aydin wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I have a gentoo linux PC at home that I am using as my internet gateway. > It is also running a web server and a mail server with a static IP. > Everything is working fine. > > Now I have installed a VPN server on this system (Open

Re: [gentoo-user] VPN question

2013-12-23 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 12/23/2013 11:01 AM, Timur Aydin wrote: > > I am located in Turkey. The VPN service provider is > http://www.strongvpn.com and they have servers all over the world. I am > using their server located in New York. Once I establish the SSL VPN > tunnel, the NY server effectively becomes my interne

Re: [gentoo-user] VPN question

2013-12-23 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 12/23/2013 12:39 PM, Timur Aydin wrote: > On 12/23/13 18:12, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> Anything you can provide, it's not clear to the rest of us how many >> computers are involved. Is the web/mail server only the gatway, or is >> that the workstation that you&#

Re: [gentoo-user] VPN question

2013-12-23 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 12/23/2013 07:04 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > The not-simple solutions are probably going to involve reorganizing your > network a bit; having a workstation, web server, and VPN client all on > one box is giving you conflicting requirements. But maybe if you're > luck

Re: [gentoo-user] VPN question

2013-12-24 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 12/23/2013 11:24 AM, Burak Arslan wrote: > > If that's the case (big if :)), here's what you need to do: > http://lartc.org/lartc.html#AEN267 > Oh, this is the same link I posted later. Impressive guess =)

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5

2014-01-02 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 01/02/2014 07:46 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a VM running in the cloud that has an old web/php app (10+ years > old, believe it or not), that still runs fine on apache 2.2.25, but I > pinned php to 5.3 some time ago. > > Does anyone see any big potential gotchas (major changes) w

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating $PATH variable permanently for root not working

2014-01-05 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 01/05/2014 04:14 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > This way everything is still unbelievably complex but at least the > visible problems mostly just go away > There is an apparently empty directory, /etc/skel, that upon closer inspection contains some nice default bash junk: $ ls -a /etc/ske

Re: [gentoo-user] Converting to Hardened/Selinux

2014-01-19 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 01/16/2014 06:43 PM, James wrote: > Ok, so I have a fresh install on a stable AMD system. > I have decided to go the full hardened/selinux route. > I found this guide to convert this newly installed system: > > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/hardened/selinux/selinux-handbook.xml?part=2&chap=1 >

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to keyword a whole overlay as ~arch ?

2014-01-26 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 01/26/2014 05:12 PM, Thanasis wrote: > I am following stable (ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"). > In order to install the "mate" desktop I need to install the mate > overlay and keyword all its packages as ~amd64. > Is there a way to do it easily for the whole overlay? > Yep, you just need to know the

Re: [gentoo-user] search and replace "carriage return"

2014-02-03 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 02/03/2014 06:14 PM, Joseph wrote: > I have a text file. How do I search and replace "carriage return"? > "a" (singular)? Emacs will happily let you enter a carriage return into the find/replace buffer with C-q C-m, i.e. quote (C-q) a control-M character (carriage return).

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] LiveCDs for Uni students

2014-03-07 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 03/07/2014 07:54 PM, Andrew Lowe wrote: > > I'm looking for a lightweight LiveCD that includes a graphical > environment and gcc/clang so that we can make it available on our > internal network for the students to download/burn and use at home. Does > anyone have any ideas/experience in

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardened and python 3

2014-03-11 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 03/11/2014 02:46 PM, James wrote: > hello, > > Last time I researched a gentoo hardened environment, it > called for the default of Python to still be series 2 of the > software. I was wondering if anyone had any experience with > a "Hardened Gentoo workstation" that was using python 3 > exclus

Re: [gentoo-user] Stabilization of netifrc-0.2.2, "extra testers wanted"

2014-04-07 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 04/07/2014 04:08 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: > Extra testers requested for netifrc-0.2.2 stabilization, also, if you > know a reason this shouldn't go stable, like > regression from 0.1, speak up now. > > See, http://bugs.gentoo.org/507070 > > (I'm purposely special casing this package over oth

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about binary packages

2014-04-09 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 04/09/2014 06:51 PM, Jean-Christophe Bach wrote: > Hi list, > > I was wondering how it works for binary packages when they are compiled: > > Are all binary packages compiled on Gentoo infrastructure after a source > upload from the maintainer, or are there any binary packages compiled on > mai

Re: [gentoo-user] 'Heartbleed' bug

2014-04-09 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 04/09/2014 08:06 PM, Joseph wrote: > Is gentoo effected by this new 'Heartbleed' bug? > > "The Heartbleed Bug is a serious vulnerability in the popular OpenSSL > cryptographic software library" > > http://heartbleed.com/ > Yes, upgrade your OpenSSL to the latest stable version, and if 1.

Re: [gentoo-user] re: nVidia GeForce 210 and nvidia-drivers-334.21-r3

2014-04-14 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 04/14/2014 07:39 AM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > I've had to replace my GPU today. Prior to attempting to start X with > the new GPU in, I thought I'd pull in the latest updates and reboot the > system. X wouldn't start as a result. I've googled for answers, but > haven't found a solution so far.

Re: [gentoo-user] re: nVidia GeForce 210 and nvidia-drivers-334.21-r3

2014-04-16 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 04/16/2014 09:14 AM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > > The new driver's been running OK so far. > Playing videos via vlc/mplayer seems to run smooth. > Some youtube videos are a bit choppy, and/or delayed though. Not sure if > it's the nouveau driver to blame or the fact that I've got 1 Gb of RAM >

Re: [gentoo-user] Heartbleed - using openssl-0.9.8y and affected

2014-04-28 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 04/28/2014 12:02 PM, Joseph wrote: > > I'm using apache-2.2.25 > Which file contain setting for: SSLCompression > I'm trying to turn it off. > It's on by default in apache-2.2. Place the following somewhere in 40_mod_ssl.conf, between "" and "": # Disable CRIME attack (off by default in ap

Re: [gentoo-user] Forwarding bug in kernel 3.14.1 and 3.14.2

2014-05-05 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 05/05/2014 06:58 AM, Timur Aydin wrote: > > I finally found a bug report that explains the symtom: > > http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg280571.html > > I then downgraded the kernel to 3.13.11, which fixed the problem. So, > all of you guys using your Gentoo PC as your internet gateway,

Re: [gentoo-user] package download verification

2014-05-07 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 05/07/2014 08:59 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Verifying ebuild manifests > Emerging (1 of 1) app-doc/mysql-refman-5.5::alan > !!! Previously fetched file: > '/var/distfiles/refman-5.5-en.html-chapter.tar.gz' > !!! Reason: Failed on SHA256 verification > !!! Got: > 2eb9f21b4bc88b89a05e2

Re: [gentoo-user] Planned Installation Steps

2014-05-08 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 05/08/2014 04:30 PM, Hunter Jozwiak wrote: > Hi all. Is it safe to install Gentoo in a course of days? Today, I > plan to get the partitions set up, mounted, and get all the stage3 > things installed, maybe install the kernel if time permits. My > question, along with the safety of the installat

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel boot messages are no longer displayed

2014-05-25 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 05/24/2014 04:20 PM, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > Hi all, > > Since kernel 3.12.13 (3.12.13-gentoo), the kernel boot messages have > disappeared, i.e. they are no longer displayed at boot time. All I get > is a line like "Loading kernel 3.12.13". (I just upgraded to > 3.12.20-gentoo, so now it's som

Re: [gentoo-user] php database character set

2014-05-25 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 05/25/2014 05:38 PM, Joseph wrote: > My php database, address book is set to (according to phpmyadmin): > Collation: utf8_general_ci > The collation determines e.g. how strings are sorted, but that doesn't mean the database supports utf-8 (although MySQL should by default these days). Try ad

Re: [gentoo-user] php database character set

2014-05-25 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 05/25/2014 08:06 PM, Joseph wrote: > On 05/25/14 19:32, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> >> Then, in mysql, run, >> >> show create database $your_database; >> >> This will show you the default character set, like, >> >> /*!40100 DEFAULT CHARACT

Re: [gentoo-user] php database character set

2014-05-25 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 05/25/2014 10:43 PM, Joseph wrote: >> >> What about the output of "show create database $your_database;"? >> Depending on how the database was created, it could still have another >> character set. > > I was trying to run this command in phpmyadmin: > show create database $temp; > > I'm gettin

Re: [gentoo-user] php database character set

2014-05-25 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 05/25/2014 11:36 PM, Joseph wrote: > > Yes, it worked, and I get: > CREATE DATABASE `catalog_sys` /*!40100 DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 */ > > so it looks OK I think. > Yeah, looks good. Here's what I'm using as a test case. Your columns aren't regular 'char' types, are they? mysql> CREATE

Re: [gentoo-user] Secure DNS servers

2014-06-16 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 06/16/2014 02:15 PM, James wrote: > Hello, > > I'm reading up on how to secure DNS primary and secondary servers. > I guess DNSSEC is pretty important. Any other areas I should read > up on? It's been a few years since I admin'd a dns server The benefits of DNSSEC are debatable. We're mov

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Secure DNS servers

2014-06-16 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 06/16/2014 03:57 PM, James wrote: > >> There's a video of DJB at the 27c3 conference floating around where he >> discusses some of this stuff. Some of his points shouldn't be taken >> seriously, but it's entertaining nevertheless. > > I thought DJB was mostly deprecated. He's still preaching d

Re: [gentoo-user] Local portage ebuilds

2014-07-09 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 07/09/2014 09:38 AM, James wrote: > Hello, > > I use the stable portage tree for most everything. > I use and test quite a few overlays. > Both of these are great. > > But now, I'm hacking a small collection my own ebuilds that focus > on some specific needs and science, which I shall refer to

Re: [gentoo-user] locating large disk files

2014-07-13 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 07/13/2014 04:03 PM, Joseph wrote: > I'm trying to clean up my home directory by locating large disk files. I used: > find / -type f -size +2k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $8 ": " $5 }' > > but I'm getting strange output: Just use "du -h" instead of "ls -lh" and awk: find / -type f

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: updating ALL packages

2014-07-24 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 07/23/2014 09:59 AM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: > > This must be wrong since my procedure does sometimes offer to update > non-world packages ... > I would still want to know if the executing the last emerge command is > wise and also would like to understand what my update world procedure > is

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenRC vs SysV init scripts.

2021-03-24 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On Wed, 2021-03-24 at 15:03 -0600, Grant Taylor wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone have any pointers on where to start on converting a 10-15 > year old SysV style init script to OpenRC? I'd start with "man openrc-run", and then read the service-script- guide.md that is shipped & installed along with O

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge failure for dev-lang/R-4.0.4

2021-04-03 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On Sat, 2021-04-03 at 13:15 +0200, k...@aspodata.se wrote: > Is there a way to run emerge step by step to find out why it fails ? > No easy way. You can `cp -a` the source/build directories out of /var/tmp/portage and then re-run `make -j`. That should re- start the build more or less where it fa

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge failure for dev-lang/R-4.0.4

2021-04-04 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On Mon, 2021-04-05 at 00:44 +0200, k...@aspodata.se wrote: > Michael: > > $ cp -a ... > $ cd ... > $ make -j1 > ... > $ echo $? > 0 > > It builds without failure in that case. > That's (potentially) good news. Can you now try it with the CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS and LDFLAGS from your `emerge --info`? If

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge failure for dev-lang/R-4.0.4

2021-04-05 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On Mon, 2021-04-05 at 16:10 +0200, k...@aspodata.se wrote: > system call failed: Cannot allocate memory > Segmentation fault Is this a low-memory machine? If so, there's no much you can do here except set a lower number of jobs in MAKEOPTS for the dev-lang/R build: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge failure for dev-lang/R-4.0.4

2021-04-06 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On Mon, 2021-04-05 at 18:29 +0200, k...@aspodata.se wrote: > > So, how much memory does R need to build ? > I have: > > $ free >    totalusedfree shared buff/cache > available > Mem: 6103628 1807560 2631444 146376 1664624 > 310786

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng misbehaving

2021-04-07 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On Wed, 2021-04-07 at 02:02 -0600, Dan Egli wrote: > It's worth a shot. I never completely got boolean logic, so you may be > right. > It depends on an implicit order of operations. Usually "not" has higher precedence than "and" and "or", but personally I wouldn't count on it unless the document

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge failure for dev-lang/R-4.0.4

2021-04-07 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On Wed, 2021-04-07 at 12:54 +0200, k...@aspodata.se wrote: > # emerge -pv1 dev-lang/R > ... > [ebuild R] dev-lang/R-4.0.4::gentoo USE="... static-libs ..." Thanks, this is really good debugging information. Is that USE=static- libs a global flag on your system? That may explain why your bu

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge failure for dev-lang/R-4.0.4

2021-04-08 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On Wed, 2021-04-07 at 22:15 +0200, k...@aspodata.se wrote: > > yea, it was a try to make c++ programs to behave under changing > compiler and library situations. Seems that some such programs > don't want to be built statically so they break whenever some "random" > lib changes. > That's my best

Re: [gentoo-user] one machine out of many has nothing to update

2021-05-05 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On Wed, 2021-05-05 at 20:11 +0200, n952162 wrote: > Hello. > > I update several machines every month.  This month, most of the machines > needed to update more than 300 packages.  But one, which isn't any > different than the others, has 0 to update, after running --sync. > > Does anybody have an

Re: [gentoo-user] one machine out of many has nothing to update

2021-05-06 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On Thu, 2021-05-06 at 07:30 +0200, n952162 wrote: > > > Yes!  It did!  It does, every time!  But why?  I have enough disk space... > I have no idea. I fix it by re-syncing until the error stops. That's how computers work.

Re: [gentoo-user] one machine out of many has nothing to update [RESOVLED]

2021-05-06 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On Thu, 2021-05-06 at 17:04 +0200, n952162 wrote: > > > How naive of me.  After 5 tries (average of 25 minutes a pop), it worked. > I am happy to hear my cynicism was not misplaced =)

Re: [gentoo-user] IPv4 broken beyond repair

2021-05-20 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On Thu, 2021-05-20 at 21:29 +0200, tastytea wrote: > > A good measure against non-targeted spam is a hidden input field with > the name “url”. If the bot put anything in that field, throw it out. And be sure to put a paragraph of (hidden) explanatory text above it so that blind users with screen

Re: Letsencrypt (was Re: [gentoo-user] app-misc/ca-certificates)

2021-06-01 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On Tue, 2021-06-01 at 13:17 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > It's not that easy to do it with internal-only systems as Let's Encrypt > requires the hostname to be known externally. > And there are plenty of devices you do not want the whole internet to know > about. > And in this situation LetsE

Re: Letsencrypt (was Re: [gentoo-user] app-misc/ca-certificates)

2021-06-01 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On Tue, 2021-06-01 at 13:02 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > So what would you recommend for someone in the case Joost cites? I'm in that > position, being a home user of a small network but no registered Internet > name. > A self-signed certificate combined with a browser extension that lets

Re: [gentoo-user] app-misc/ca-certificates

2021-06-01 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On Tue, 2021-06-01 at 15:25 -0600, Grant Taylor wrote: > > The proper way configure certificates is: > > 1) Create a key on the local server. > 2) Create a Certificate Signing Request (a.k.a. CSR) which references, > but does not include, the key. > 3) As a CA to sign the CSR. > 4) Use the c

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-lang/php-7.4.21-r1::gentoo failed (compile phase)

2021-07-17 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On Sat, 2021-07-17 at 15:13 -0600, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > On of my system is giving me an error when compiling php > > In file included from /usr/include/libxml2/libxml/parser.h:812, > from > /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/php-7.4.21-r1/work/sapis-build/cli/ext/libxml/libxml.

Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean wants to remove openrc. Yikes!

2021-07-25 Thread Michael Orlitzky
(Replying nowhere in particular) This is indeed a bug, but not the ones that have been suggested. The underlying problem is that the DJB programs (mail-mta/netqmail, but also net-dns/djbdns, for example) require a particular service manager. When OpenRC is installed only as a side effect of being

Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean wants to remove openrc. Yikes!

2021-07-25 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On Sun, 2021-07-25 at 20:52 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 8:39 PM Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > > > This is indeed a bug, but not the ones that have been suggested. The > > underlying problem is that the DJB programs (mail-mta/netqmail, but > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: --depclean wants to remove openrc. Yikes!

2021-07-27 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On Tue, 2021-07-27 at 21:18 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > Instead of continually beating on portage on this list, which will > achieve nothing more than a minor waste of electrons, you should be > focussing on getting the ebuilds fixed so that portage is no longer given > conflicting or incorrec

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: --depclean wants to remove openrc. Yikes!

2021-07-27 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On Tue, 2021-07-27 at 21:58 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > I was thinking more along the lines of a USE flag, as suggested first by > Rich. Add a system-init flag to daemontools, defaulting to off, and have > the virtual depend on daemontools[system-init] and the problem goes away > with the only

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-lang/perl:0

2021-07-30 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On Thu, 2021-07-29 at 20:42 -0600, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > I'm trying to run an upgrade but I got stuck on perl: > > !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been > pulled > !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict: > > dev-lang/perl:0 > Addin

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-lang/perl:0

2021-07-30 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On Fri, 2021-07-30 at 07:08 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On Thu, 2021-07-29 at 20:42 -0600, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > > I'm trying to run an upgrade but I got stuck on perl: > > > > !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been &

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync keeps failing

2021-08-01 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On Sun, 2021-08-01 at 17:32 +0200, n952162 wrote: >  * Verifying /var/db/repos/gentoo/.tmp-unverified-download-quarantine > ...!!! Manifest verification failed: >  Manifest mismatch for metadata/news/Manifest > > I've raised this question before and the only useful answer I got was to > keep try

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync keeps failing

2021-08-02 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 2021-08-02 09:20:19, n952162 wrote: > On 8/1/21 8:32 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > On Sun, 2021-08-01 at 17:32 +0200, n952162 wrote: > >>  * Verifying /var/db/repos/gentoo/.tmp-unverified-download-quarantine > >> ...!!! Manifest verification failed: > >&g

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync keeps failing

2021-08-04 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On Mon, 2021-08-02 at 13:10 +0200, n952162 wrote: > > > > I have this problem every month.  Why does it fail?  Is it just a > timeout because my network is slow?  Can that be tweaked? > I'm not really sure. I've seen it fail in the past due to bad memory or a dying hard drive, but it also "just

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